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Mark Henderson always knew he would eventually re-open the Montgomery County trout farm his grandfather once operated. He just didn’t expect it to happen so soon. “Yeah, I had planned to do this for my retirement,” Henderson says, “but things didn’t exactly work out that way.” A two-story fall from a ladder in 2008 abruptly

“Necessity, who is the mother of invention,” is attributed to the Greek author and philosopher Plato a v-e-r-y l-o-n-g time ago, 427 BC – 347 BC. His words have proven true myriad times over, and Daryl Alderman...

Born and raised in Christiansburg, Jennifer Poff Cooper graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in marketing, married an Alabama native she met in college and moved to Huntsville, Ala., for 16 years. After her grandfather and...

Text by Emily Alberts Photos by Always and Forever Photography Kevin Campbell and his wife Melissa are quite proud of their decision to buy and renovate Cox’s Driving Range. “It’s an incredible feeling of accomplishment to own...

Text by Emily Alberts Photos by Always and Forever Photography Cody Thompson and Chris Mullens became business partners in mid-May of this year when they made the life-changing decision to buy Zeppoli’s from previous owner and co-founder...

Text by Emily Alberts Photos by Always and Forever Photography Brian’s Lock & Key is a family business which owner Tom Flinchum bought in 1989. “Purchasing the company from Brian Behal and his wife, Pam, was a...

Text by Jennifer Poff Cooper Photos by Always and Forever Photography “The first thing to know about a Virginia Tech football game,” says Floyd Merryman III, “is that it is an event, not just a game.”...